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Australian author Craig Silvey offers readers a glimpse into the prejudice, hypocrisy, community and simple way life in a small Australian country town the 1960s in his latest novel Jasper Jones (Windmill Books, 2010). Readers are offered a captivating mix of light-hearted dialogue and penetrating observations of people and their motives as secrets are revealed in the summer heat.

Jasper Jones – Plot Summary

Bookish 13-year-old Charlie Bucktin is startled with the town bad boy Jasper Jones taps on his window one sweltering summer night. Excitedly he follows Jasper anticipating a wild adventure only to be shocked to discover that Jasper has a secret to share that will change Charlie’s world forever.

Carrying Jasper’s secret with him like a heavy burden, Charlie is further challenged by tensions at home and his growing awareness of the impact prejudice is having on his best friend Jeffrey, who is Vietnamese. Providing a lighter contrast to these heavy issues is Charlie’s infatuation with Eliza Wishart and his trading of playful mocking insults with Jeffrey, who is in turn infatuated with his own cricketing skills and his desire to replicate the achievements of his sporting hero, Australian cricketer Doug Walters.

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